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hey all,

I've forgotten hoe to pull the fist line of a txt file into a variable. I thought it was..

set var=<<C:\test.txt

but it doesn't work!!

All i'm trying to capture is a single word, so it should be nice and easy.

(also I've lost all my old batch files so can't look up whats I've done before.)

Cheers in advance

hey all,

I've forgotten hoe to pull the fist line of a txt file into a variable. I thought it was..

set var=<<C:\test.txt

but it doesn't work!!

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set /p var=<myfile.txt

arh,


/p - thats what I needed.

Cheers boss.